Bible Verses About Young Men

The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.

Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,

And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.

Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.